AI and the impossibility of learning or understanding language
Event
AI and the impossibility of learning or understanding language
Tuesday 4 November, 2025 – Tuesday 4 November, 202512:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Online
Part of the School of Education Research Seminar Series 2025-26.
About the seminar
Can Artificial Intelligence help us learn, specifically, help us learn language? Humans can help us, so why not artificial intelligence systems modelled on human intelligence?
Professor Traxler takes apart language, intelligence, and some of the things we try to make them do for us, suggesting that learning language is pretty daunting.
About the speakers
John Traxler, PhD, FRSA, MBCS, AFIMA, MIET, is Professor of Digital Learning, the UNESCO Chair in Innovative Informal Digital Learning in Disadvantaged and Development Contexts. His work focusses on societies, cultures and communities of mobility and connectivity, examining the impacts of educational AI on global and individual disadvantage and the decolonisation of digital technologies.